Watch or clock spring carrier.



M. M. RIG LANDBR WATCH 0R CLOCK SPRING CARRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1911.

1,015,978, Patented Jail. 30, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES M. RIGLANDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HAMMEL, RIGLANDER &00., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WATCH OR CLOCK SPRING CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Mosns M. RIGLANDER, acitizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, andState of New York, (whose postoffice address is 4:7 Maiden Lane, in saidcity,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch orClock Spring Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements have special reference to the packing and transportationof springs for watches, although the same may be employed in connectionwith springs for clocks and other devices.

The improvements belong to that class of device in which there is a caseor capsule having an opening in its base in which a coiled spring isplaced so as to avoid rusting the spring due to handling. In anotherform of the same device there has been em ployed a disk set within thecapsule upon which the spring rests, and which is employed both for thepurpose of carrying advertising or other matter and providing means forreadily ejecting the spring from the capsule into the barrel of thewatch so as to avoid handling the spring.

All springs of the class herein referred to are provided with means atone end for se curing them to the barrel of the watch. In watch springs,either hair or main, where the springs are relatively very small anddelicate these securing means are bulky and have caused considerabledifiiculty in packing the spring in a flat and unobtrusive manner. Inorder to avoid this it has been necessary to make the capsule very muchdeeper than the width of the spring so as to allow for the unsymmetricaldisposition of the spring in the capsule. This involves a waste ofmaterial-on the one hand, renders the removal or pushing out or otherform of ejectment of the spring from the capsule unnecessarily difficultand attendant with danger to the spring. By the use of my invention thecapsule need be no deeper than the width of the said securing means, andthe spring is received and held symmetrically within the capsule withoutprotrusion of any part thereof whereby the spring is freed from possibleinjury, packing facilitated and rendered more easy of accomplishment,the spring is prevented from having a creeping movement in the capsule,and by utilizing my invention in connection with an Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed September 21, 1911.

Patented Jan. 30, 1912.

Serial No. 650,561.

ejecting disk, the spring, disk, and capsule can be locked together,thereby preventing inadvertent movement of the ejecting disk, without inany manner impairing the facilities with which the spring may be ejectedfrom the capsule.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the drawing forming parthereof in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of the capsule andcontained spring embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan View of thesame. Both of the foregoing figures are considerably enlarged for thepurpose of illustration. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section of oneportion of the capsule and ejecting disk, taken on the line a m Fig. 2looking in the direction of the arrows. Fig. 4E is an enlargedperspective view of one end of the spring, showing the watch barrelconnection. Fig. 5 is a section of a portion of an ordinary capsule, oneend containing a spring showing the unsymmetrical disposition of thespring in capsules generally in use.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral vlews.

The drawing illustrates an embodiment of my invention, in which thecapsule 1 comprises a base 2 having a centrally located aperture 3 andan annular wall 4. In the embodiment shown the base 2 of the capsule isprovided with an aperture 5. At 6 is shown the spring which the capsuleor car'- rier is intended to hold, at one end of which is formed themeans for securing it to the watch barrel, in the present caseconsisting of an ear 7 having lugs 7 extending transversely somedistance below the upper and lower edges of the spring, as shown in Fig.4.

In Fig. 5 is shown an ordinary capsule with the spring 6 unsymmetricallydisposed therein, the attaching ear 7 rising considerably above thesame. With the parts thus related it will be noted that such carrierscannot be conveniently packed together, the spring is distorted, andwhen allowed to remain in that condition for some length of time itfrequently gets a permanent set, which renders the spring unusable. Inorder to avoid this condition it has frequently been found necessary tomake the casing considerably deeper than the width of the spring, asindicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5. While this serves the purpose ofprotecting the projecting lugs 7 and preventing them from engagingadjacent object it does not do away with the unsymmetrical position ofthe spring in the capsule. The added depth to the capsule presents aconsiderable surface upon which moisture may accumulate and injuriouslyaffect the spring. The most serious objection, however, to the form ofpacking shown in Fig. 5 is that it disalines the ear 7 (or other barreldevice) attaching with respect to the flange 4 of the capsule, so thatwhen the spring is ejected, if an ejecting disk is employed, the ear 7or other equivalent means, cannot be readily inserted into itsappropriate seat in the watch barrel, if it can be done at all. To avoidthis difliculty, I form in the base 2 of the capsule closely adjacent toits wall 4t the aperture 5, conforming, as near as may be, to theexterior shape of the transverse end of the lugs 7 (or correspondingwith the shape of the end of whatever other case attaching means areemployed) into which the lug-end projects, as shown in Fig. l.

The capsule may be intentionally made to correspond in internal widthwith the internal width of the watch barrel, and the means for receivingthe spring-end in the spring-barrel is located adjacent or on its wall,the spring may be ejected from the casing in any desired way as byinserting an appropriate instrument through the aperture 5 and thespring be properly seated in the spring barrel and its connectiontherewith made by alining the aperture 5 in the capsule directly withthe spring barrel means for securing the spring. In this way the springis symmetrically contained within the capsule, unnecessary frictionalsurface or surface opposed to cli- Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor matic conditions is dispensed with, the capsule made just deepenough to receive the spring and the attaching lug, 7 (or otherequivalent device) held in the capsule in such a way that it can bereadily connected with the spring barrel.

If my improvements are employed in connection with a capsule having anejecting disk such as 8, an aperture as 9, would be formed thereincorresponding with the aperture 5 and alined with it, so that the lugs 7will hold the capsule disk and spring firmly together and prevent anycreeping or inadvertent movement between the parts.

It will be observed that my invention may be variously embodied, so thatI do not limit myself to the'exact form shown and described herein, butintend that my invention shall be taken to be as broad as the scope ofthe claims appended hereto.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In an article of the class described, a capsule having a base andflange, a spring coiled within said flange, an aperture formed in thebase adjacent to the flange and an enlargement or projection formed atthe end of the spring and extending transversely thereof, the lower endof said enlargement passing into said aperture.

2. In an article of the class described, the

combination of a capsule having a base and flange, an aperture in thebase adjacent the flange and an ejecting disk located within the flangeand resting on the base and having an aperture adapted to be alined withthe aperture in the base.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York this 20th day ofSeptember, 1911.

MOSES M. RIGLANDER. lVitnesses I GUs'rAvE I. Anonow, H. RADZINSKY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,D. 0.

